Fraser became known as Mad Professor as a boy due to his fascination with electronics. He emigrated from Guyana to London at the age of 13 and later began his music career as a service technician.[citation needed] He gradually collected recording and mixing equipment, and in 1979 opened his own four-track recording studio, Ariwa Sounds, in the living room of his home in Thornton Heath.[2]
Career
Fraser began recording lovers rock bands and vocalists for his own label (including the debut recording by Deborahe Glasgow) and recorded his first album after moving the studio to a new location in Peckham in 1982, equipped with an eight-track setup, later expanding to sixteen.[2] Fraser's Dub Me Crazy series of albums won the support of John Peel, who regularly aired tracks from the albums.[2] Although early releases were not big sellers among reggae buyers, the mid-1980s saw this change with releases from Sandra Cross (Country Life), Johnny Clarke, Peter Culture, Pato Banton, and Macka B (Sign of the Times).[2] Fraser moved again, this time to South Norwood, where he set up what was the largest black-owned studio complex in the UK, where he recorded lovers rock tracks by Cross, John McLean, and Kofi, and attracted Jamaican artists including Bob Andy and Faybiene Miranda.[2] He teamed up with Lee "Scratch" Perry for the first time in 1983 for the recording of the album Mystic Warrior (1989).[3]
Mad Professor has created 12 instalments of the Dub Me Crazy series and 5 albums under the Black Liberation Dub banner. The following is a partial discography of his original releases including collaborations with other artists and remixes.
Original recordings
1983 – In A Rub A Dub Style
1985 – A Caribbean Taste of Technology
1992 – True Born African Dub
1994 – The Lost Scrolls of Moses
1995 – It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Professor
1997 – RAS Portraits
2001 – Dubbing You Crazy
2001 – Trix in the Mix
2005 – Method to the Madness
2007 – Dub You Crazy
2008 – The Dubs That Time Forgot
2009 – Audio Illusions of Dub
2012 – The Roots of Dubstep
Dub Me Crazy series
1982 – Dub Me Crazy
1982 – Beyond The Realms of Dub (Dub Me Crazy, Pt.2)
1983 – The African Connection (Dub Me Crazy, Pt.3)
1983 – Escape to the Asylum of Dub (Dub Me Crazy, Pt.4)
1985 – Who Knows The Secret of the Master Tape (Dub Me Crazy, Pt.5)
1986 – Schizophrenic Dub (Dub Me Crazy, Pt.6)
1987 – Adventures of a Dub Sampler (Dub Me Crazy, Pt.7)
1988 – Experiments of the Aural Kind (Dub Me Crazy, Pt.8)
1989 – Science and the Witchdoctor (Dub Me Crazy, Pt.9)
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